{"id":9358,"date":"2025-10-30T13:26:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T17:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=9358"},"modified":"2025-10-31T09:29:40","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T13:29:40","slug":"covid-19-cases-vaccine-campaigns-helped-prompt-mask-mandates-return-doctor-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/covid-19-cases-vaccine-campaigns-helped-prompt-mask-mandates-return-doctor-says\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 cases, vaccine campaigns helped prompt mask mandate’s return, doctor says"},"content":{"rendered":"

A temporary mask mandate is coming back to Newfoundland and Labrador\u2019s hospitals and long-term care facilities, and one doctor says the driving force is two-fold \u2014 a rise in COVID-19 cases and the availability of vaccines.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, Newfoundland and Labrador Health Services announced it was temporarily bringing back mandatory masking<\/a> in clinical settings effective Monday. The release cited an increase in infectious diseases circulating.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe timing of the mask requirement was a little bit deliberate to coincide with the timing of the COVID-19 and influenza vaccine campaigns,\u201d Dr. Natalie Bridger, an infectious disease specialist, told CBC Radio\u2019s The St. John\u2019s Morning Show.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A temporary mask mandate is coming back to Newfoundland and Labrador\u2019s hospitals and long-term care facilities, and one doctor says the driving force is two-fold \u2014 a rise in COVID-19 cases and the availability of vaccines.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, Newfoundland and Labrador Health Services announced it was temporarily bringing back mandatory masking<\/a> in clinical settings effective Monday. The release cited an increase in infectious diseases circulating.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe timing of the mask requirement was a little bit deliberate to coincide with the timing of the COVID-19 and influenza vaccine campaigns,\u201d Dr. Natalie Bridger, an infectious disease specialist, told CBC Radio\u2019s The St. John\u2019s Morning Show.<\/em><\/p>\n

Continue readingCOVID-19 cases, vaccine campaigns helped prompt mask mandate’s return, doctor says<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[96,18,23,19,360,14,143],"class_list":["post-9358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-canada","tag-covid-19","tag-hospitals","tag-masks","tag-newfoundland-and-labrador","tag-sars-cov-2","tag-universal-masking","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9358"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9361,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9358\/revisions\/9361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}